Relay for Life

It was around 10:30 p.m. on April 24, 2009, I was sitting with my neighbors playing some Halo 3 when my friend Brandi Redding called me. She had just got off of work and asked if I wanted to go to Relay for Life with her. I told her that I would and that we would meet up in an hour. Well we actually met up about a hour and a half later because my neighbor Alex had accidently spilled his sweet tea on me so I had to go take a shower really quick.
Finally around 12:00 a.m., Brandi, her roommate and fellow sorority sister Karla, and I went to Relay for Life which was being held on the Tennessee Tech intramural softball fields. I have been to a couple other Relay for Life events back in Crossville, TN the past couple of years. In the past there were a lot of “older” people and very few people my age. This by far was a whole different experience for me. This event has almost every college organization that’s at Tech participating. Each organization had their own booth to raise money for cancer. Some had food, there were dunking booths, corn hull, jail, auctions, softball games, volleyball games, basketball games, and much more. I had to bail a girl out of jail because she was taken while we were in the middle of an intense conversation and I really wanted to finish it. The area to walk was around the booths, and at all times each organization made sure they had a member walking. I saw a ton of people I knew and even met a couple of people thanks to Brandi. It was great seeing everyone work together to raise money for Relay for Life. We were there for about a hour. I was very glad that I went.